In the September, 1956 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, directions for a lightweight, wooden speedster powered by a motorcycle engine caught the eye of some deranged boat builder on the west coast. Here's the result: a modified version of the Speedball Special. Best news? It's for sale. The car was originally built in…
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The Splinter wooden supercar we saw last week is apparently going to be the second car bearing the foreboding moniker. Artist Isaac Cohen displayed his version of a wooden car named Splinter a couple of weeks ago at the Houston Art Car Parade. The gull-wing wonder is the result of thousands of hours of work and while… »4/28/08 9:20am 4/28/08 9:20am

When you're in the Ukraine you've got to make your own fun, which is we guess how Vasily Lazarenko ended up with this 1981 Opel-based wooden monstrosity. Half is a decently attractive homage to the curvaceous beauties of the late 1930s, while the other half is a more modern automobile with a profile only Viktor… »11/20/07 10:45am 11/20/07 10:45am